These venerable trees are dubbed “living fossils” — the imprints of similar trees from 270 million years ago are virtually identical to the specimens at our curbsides, and in parks and cemeteries.

The beautiful but malodorous fruit, which ripens and falls to the ground in October, is a prized delicacy in some Asian cuisines.

One old, tall ginkgo can be found alongside the driveway at 66 Harvard Ave. in New Brighton.

Others can be spotted along Victory Boulevard in Silver Lake.

The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, a 7,400-acre state park in Washington, is a “registered national natural landmark,” and “regarded as one of the most unusual fossil forests in the world,” according to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (PRC).

“The park was set aside as a historic preserve when remains of a fossil forest were unearthed during highway construction in the 1930s. Petrified wood from many different trees are common in the area, but specimens of petrified Ginkgo are rare,” PRC adds.

The Petrified Forest is about 30 miles east of Ellensburg, on the Columbia River.